Other editions of book Smelling the Sky: Book I - New Friends

Smelling the Sky : An Entertaining Award Winning Story for Kids Part of the "Same Planet-Different World" SeriesThe Same Planet - Different World Book Series is a story for kids and adults about friendship, loss, how quickly life can change, and how the quality of our lives is determined by how we choose to feel about those changes.In Smelling the Sky, the climactic third and final book of the series, the three school outcasts, David, Shelton, and Lonnie arrive at the Evergreen Participatory Education and Rehabilitation Program, where the motto is "Building minds, bodies, and character all at once." At the School Board hearing when the school principal, Mr. Agerton, recommended a few weeks at the work camp as an alternative to juvenile prison, the boys' parents practically swooned with gratitude. And upon arriving and seeing the extensive, nicely groomed stables, horse pens, and training arena, the boys are relieved, as well, at first. But after just a few days of hard labor with little or no food under the cruel and unstable, caretaker and self-pronounced judge and jury, Jeeves, and his even more unstable pitbull, Chopper, the boys begin to wonder if they will ever be allowed to return to "the company of good folks."And then David stumbles upon a sinister secret buried deep in the woods behind the camp placing the boys in more danger then they could have ever imagined and igniting a series of events which force David to reexamine everything he has seen, heard, thought and felt, beginning with the day his sister, Janie, was killed.Other Books in the Series

David Fuller is a bored twelve-year old tangled in feelings of isolation and guilt over the death of his little sister. That summer, Shelton - a pudgy weirdo kid who spends hours staring at anthills and greets dogs by sniffing their butts - moves in next door. Can David really be friends with someone like Shelton? His wariness turns to suspicion, then fascination as he uncovers what it is that makes Shelton special. But he's not the only one. When men in dark suits driving black SUVs start showing up, David realizes what's really at stake. Now he faces the hardest decision of his life.